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Surface trenching was now commenced eastward of this section 

 and below the terrace. No pits were discovered, though charcoal, 

 pottery, and iron were abundant. Amongst the pottery was a 

 piece of red ware with a painted pattern in black round the rim, 

 two lines half-au-inch apart, containing seven ranks of short lines 

 about one-sixteenth of an inch high, and three-thirty-seconds of 

 an inch apart. The most inteiesting find was a scraper of chalce- 

 dony (?), unpolished but highly burnished, looking in places almost 

 as if a gummy substance had been applied. It measured three 

 inches and nine-sixteenths long by one inch and a half wide, 

 the ends being finished to a point, so that it assiimed the form of 

 an elongated hexagon. It was chipped to an edge on all sides, 

 but on one side the angle was more acute. A quern stone was 

 found in very perfect condition. 



Work was now transferred to a ditch which had been discovered 

 in excavating a septic tank just within the wood. The ditch was 

 followed out to where it ceased, 12ft. above the bank; where it 

 crossed the latter it widened out to 10ft., and was 2ft. deep. Here 

 in one corner some flag-stones showing marks of fire were found 

 at a depth of 1ft. 4in., and had probably formed a hearth. Similar 

 pieces of burnt stone were found spread over this area. A round 

 jar of brown ware, its black surface ornamented with cross hatching, 

 almost complete, and a large portion of another one of similar 

 quality, were discovered between 1ft. and 2ft. deep. The other 

 pottery remains were considerable, but it is to be remarked that 

 there were only four pieces of New Forest ware, and eight of red 

 ware (two having the red Samian glaze), out of a total of twelve 

 hundred and four pieces, the finer ware being thus in a proportion 

 of 1 in 100 ; while in the surface trenching the proportion was 1 

 in 14-7, and in the pit A 1 in 15. This points to the lower portion 

 of the field having been the poorer quarter, a conclusion which is 

 in accordance with Gen. Pitt-Eivers' excavations in Cranborne 

 Chase. Two coins were discovered here, one of Urbs Eoma, and 

 another probably of Claudius Gothicus, or Tetricus. A section 

 was cut through a mound or protuberance on the side of the hill, 

 40ft. above the septic tank,but it yielded only a few pieces of pottery. 



